The following is an article from the book Uncle Jo...  ...n him. WATERWORKS Very few big cities have public drinking fountains . One that does is Portland, Oregon. If you’...  ...area, you’ve probably seen the many unique fountains that dot the city’s sidewalks. There are tw...  ...ion and a si...

The Women's Christian Temperance Union used many d...  ...tactics made some kind of sense: providing public drinking fountains so that clean water was available to everyone, as...  ...ness all that much, but it established the public drinking fountain as a common service. Many of the fo...